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Senior QA EngineerPanasas

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Panasas is looking for storage software Senior QA Engineer to work on Storage Technology Products. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for creating and maintaining software test suites and test tools for file systems testing and coordinating with multi-disciplined project groups to achieve their goals. This position requires a highly competent, results-oriented, self-directed software testing professional with strong scripting background and passion in finding bugs. Senior candidates with pertinent skill sets will be considered for this role.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineers are expected to be able to work with a variety of development environments and operating systems (Unix, Linux). Applicants should be proficient in testing methodologies, programming and scripting languages, and various automation techniques. Past experience testing Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions is necessary to be a candidate for this role.

Duties and Responsibilities
Ability to review a technical software or hardware specification in order to create a test plan.
Responsible for the design, implementation, and execution of thorough requirements-based testing, in accordance with test plan specifications.
Review existing test suites to find any testing gaps and drive the development and execution of these tests to find bugs that of high impact in product quality and ensure proper test coverage
Work hand in hand with development to understand and provide test solutions for wide range of complex problems
Submission of detailed bug reports which provide enough debug information for the development teams to quickly resolve all product defects
Assist in the development of tools which will be used to improve our test automation infrastructure
Ensure that work meets or exceeds project performance, reliability, and quality goals
Mentor other test engineers where applicable
Requirements
8+ years QA experience
2+ years of work experience in testing a NAS or Enterprise Storage Device
Strong programming experience in one or more of these languages is a must for this role: Python, C, Tcl/Tk, Perl
Experience in testing Unix file system, storage, data protection paradigms or disaster recovery solutions
Comfortable in an environment which utilizes Unix/Linux as the operating system of choice
Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IPv4/v6, SNMP, NFS, pNFS or CIFS
Experience with Perforce is a plus
Strong analytical and communication skills
Ability to work independently
BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Panasas is the premier provider of high performance parallel storage solutions for technical computing applications and big data workloads. All Panasas ActiveStor? scale-out storage appliances leverage Panasas PanFS? parallel file system to deliver superior performance, data protection, scalability, and manageability.

Panasas systems are optimized for highly demanding HPC storage applications in the bioscience, energy, government, finance, manufacturing, and other core research and development sectors. The company?s global reach extends to 50 countries with a diverse line-up of fortune 500 companies.

Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage is the premier storage system for scalable Linux clusters. Panasas delivers exceptional scaling in capacity and performance while extending appliance-like ease of management to a virtually boundless storage system for High Performance Computing (HPC) organizations around the world. All Panasas storage clusters contain the object-based, PanFS parallel file system. Using Panasas storage solutions, organizations can achieve maximum application performance while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by driving cost and complexity out of their storage infrastructures. Panasas solutions break the storage I/O bottleneck and are deployed in a broad range of government, academic and Fortune 500 organizations.